Baroness Hale to lay down the law on MasterChef

Baroness Hale of Richmond admits that she is a poor cook and lets her husband manage the kitchenDAN KITWOOD/GETTY

The UK’s most senior judge is going from tort to torte. Baroness Hale of Richmond, the first female president of the Supreme Court, will feature on MasterChef in an unprecedented television appearance.

The only problem? She is not particularly fond of — or good at — cooking.

Lady Hale, 73, is making a VIP appearance on the semi-finals of the BBC cookery show, where she will judge which of seven budding chefs go forward to the final. However, she is the first to admit that cooking is not high on her list of skills. “At school”, she once said, “I excelled at everything, except art, gym and domestic science. My cookery teacher would sigh when I walked in.”

At home it is her husband, the…

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